Museia research group (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) designed an Action research project called 3C4learning. It began in September 2008 and ended in December 2009. It comprised three researcher, three teachers and their students of secondary schools and four cultural managers.

The cultural managers and the teachers carried out their respective functions and became also researchers together with the other three. Each teacher with their students and a cultural manager formed an on-line community. There were three virtual communities: Archaeological Park Mines of Gava community (PAMG community), Patum Museum community (Patum community) and Fàbrica de les Arts Roca Umbert community (FA community).These actors became user and co-producers of digital objects with heritage contents.

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«Museums have the responsibility to deconstruct their historically situated assumptions, missions, metaphors, conventions and practices [...] however museums are still caught into different dichotomised narratives that are presented as objective “truths”. To name a few, I am referring to the tyranny of chronology (Pollock, 2002), the romantic discourse of the artists as a genius, the current thematic approach in exhibition design or the notion of heritage as a commodity. I am also referring to the culture wars between directors, curators, educators, administrators, evaluators and visitors. And here is when we could ask:

Why can’t museums include multiple perspectives in their research processes, exhibition or educational policies and practices? Why can’t they treat visitors as equal voices?»